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Smith, May Riley

Smith, May Riley[1842-1927](1)Born in Rochester, N.Y., May 7, 1842. Educated at Tracey Female Institute, Rochester, and at Brockport, N.Y., Collegiate Institute. Married Albert Smith, of…

Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith was the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, serving in that post from 2017 to 2019. Born in Massachusetts but raised in central California, Smith graduated from Harvard…

Jada Pinkett Smith

Name at birth: Jada Korsen PinkettJada Pinkett Smith has been on the big screen since the 1990s, but she's best known for her role as Niobe in the sequels The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Matrix…

Anna Nicole Smith

Name at birth: Vicky Lynn HoganAnna Nicole Smith was a zaftig blonde bombshell whose career as a tabloid celebrity began when she posed naked for Playboy magazine in 1992 and ended with her untimely…

Margaret Smith Taylor

Name at birth: Margaret Mackall SmithMargaret Smith Taylor was the wife of the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor. She never really served as the First Lady, however, leaving the…

Brewer's: Smith of Nottingham

Ray, in his Collection of Proverbs, has the following couplet: The little Smith of Nottingham, Who doth the work that no man can. Applied to conceited persons who imagine that no one is…

Margaret Smith Court

Margaret Smith Court was the dominant women's tennis player of the 1960s. Her 24 major singles titles are the most in the history of women's tennis. As Margaret Smith, she went to Wimbledon in 1962…

Liz Smith Biography

Liz Smithgossip columnistBirthplace: Ft. Worth, Tex. Smith worked as a reporter, typist, and proofreader. In the 1950s. Smith broke into New York media as a news producer for Mike Wallace at…

Dean Smith Biography

Dean SmithBorn: Feb. 28, 1931Basketball No. 1 on all-time NCAA coaches victory list (879); led North Carolina to 25 NCAA tournaments in 34 years, reaching Final Four 10 times and winning…